Basket-Hilt Rapier
The basket shape of the hilt completely encloses the hand in a system of connected, curving bars that extend from the guard to the pommel. The blade is exceptionally long, with a flattened diamond section that turns to a hexagonal section, and is deeply grooved at the hilt.The...
Artifact
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19505
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Duca d'Aosta; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 27-28, 1925, no. 104; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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1
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import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.506 |
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Medium
steel